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Striker Van Quyet celebrates after scoring a goal for hosts Hanoi T&T at Hang Day Stadium in Super League round 4 on Sunday Local players Van Quyet and Tang Tuan each scored a brace to help their clubs score wins in the fourth round of Vietnam’s top-flight Super League Sunday, giving football fans some hope for the...

Hoang Thien (L) and Wong Chun Hun (2nd L) with their boys' doubles trophy at the International Tennis Federation's Under-18 Grade 3 contest in Auckland. Photo by AFP. Vietnam’s Nguyen Hoang Thien and Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Hun won the International Tennis Federation (ITF)’s Under-18 Grade 3 competition...

Vietnam's No.1 chess player Le Quang Liem. Vietnam’s number one chess player Le Quang Liem lost to the world female champion, Chinese Hou Yifan, in the eighth round of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Tuesday. With advantage of playing white pieces, the 25th seeded Hou Yifan launched relentless attacks...

Vietnam's men indoor football team. The draw for the 2012 ASEAN Futsal (indoor football) competition held last Sunday in Kuala Lumpur saw Vietnam placed in Group A with Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, and the Philippines. It is a fairly good draw for Vietnam because the only strong rivals in the group are Malaysia. Regional...

Hosts Saigon FC and Thanh Hoa involved in a brawl at Ho Chi Minh City's Thong Nhat Stadium Sunday Violence on and off the pitch marked the quarterfinal action in the 2012 National Cup football in Vietnam Sunday. At Ho Chi Minh City’s Thong Nhat Stadium, visitors Thanh Hoa looked better than hosts Saigon FC in the...

  Vietnam has been chosen to host the playoff round of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Qualifiers for the 2012 London Games from March 25 to 31. Previously, Malaysia had been chosen but facilities there did not meet the requirements, so AFC decided to move the venue to Hanoi. Currently, only the...

Vietnam's No.1 chess player Le Quang Liem. Vietnam’s top chess player Grandmaster Le Quang Liem remains in the leading group in the Masters category of the Gibraltar Open after a fifth-round draw with Englishman Nigel Short Saturday. Short, 48, playing white, normally a big advantage, attacked straightaway, putting...

  England’s Premier League club Everton has shown interest in Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh, the club’s representative has said. Steve Darby, who is Vietnam’s former national female football team coach, was a spectator at the Hanoi’s Hang Day Stadium to watch Vinh play in Hanoi...

Nguyen Hoang Thien, Vietnam's number one young tennis player, currently ranked 71st in the International Juniors rankings. Vietnam’s best young tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien Wednesday left Australia to compete at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Under-18 Grade 3 competition in New Zealand. The 16-year-old...

  Hoang Xuan Vinh has become the first ever Vietnamese shooter to win an official Olympics berth. Vinh won 682.4 points in the men’s 10-meter air gun event on Monday at the January 11-22 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar. Vinh finished fourth behind the gold medal winner from South Korea, Jin...